EIA shows little change in refinery production, utilization

The Energy Information Administration appear its account address on the cachet of petroleum inventories in the United States today.

Here are some highlights:

CRUDE INVENTORIES:

Crude oil inventories decreased by 1.2 actor barrels to a absolute of 387.6 actor barrels. At 387.6 actor barrels, inventories are 18.6 actor barrels aloft aftermost year (5.0%) and are aloft the high absolute of the boilerplate range.

GASOLINE INVENTORIES:

Gasoline inventories decreased by 0.6 actor barrels to 221.7 actor barrels. At 221.7 actor barrels, inventories are up 7.8 actor barrels, or 3.6% added than aftermost year. Here's how alone regions and their gasoline account fared aftermost week: East Coast (+0.7mb); Midwest (no change); Gulf Coast (-0.6mb); Rockies (no change); and West Coast (-0.8mb). It is important to agenda which regions saw increases/decreases as this advice acceptable drives prices up (in the case of falling inventories), or bottomward (in the case of ascent inventories).

DISTILLATE (diesel, heating oil) INVENTORIES:

Distillate inventories added by 2.4 actor barrels to a absolute of 115.2 actor barrels. At 115.2 actor barrels, inventories are now 10.7% lower than a year ago. Absolute alcohol inventories angle 13.8 actor barrels lower than their year ago level.

IMPLIED DEMAND:

Products supplied to end users amounted to 18.4 actor barrels per day, or 340,000 barrels per day college than the antecedent week. Compared to the aforementioned aeon aftermost year, artefact supplied is about 0.9% college so far year-to-date.

REFINERY OUTPUT/UTILIZATION:

Refinery appliance added to 86.3%, bottomward 0.5% vs. aftermost week's numbers. Gasoline assembly added aftermost anniversary averaging 8.9 actor barrels per day while alcohol ammunition assembly decreased, averaging over 4.5 actor barrels per day.

Utilization ante for the aftermost anniversary were as follows: East Coast: 86.5%, Midwest: 82.76%, Gulf Coast: 89.8%, Rocky Mountain: 93.8%, West Coast: 78.6%. These percentages appearance how abundant of a region's all-embracing accommodation were acclimated to clarify oil. It is important to agenda these percentages, because the lower the appliance percent, the lower output, which has a absolute appulse on bounded gasoline prices. If refiners in your arena accept low output, your added acceptable to see prices rise.

OVERALL SUPPLY:

Total oil stocks in the United States are up by 18.1 actor barrels (1.7%) over aftermost year and angle at 1.086 billion barrels (excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve).

IMPORTS/EXPORTS:

The U.S. alien 7.4 actor barrels of awkward oil per day aftermost week, bottomward by 289,000bpd vs. the antecedent week. Absolute motor gasoline imports aftermost anniversary averaged 876,000bpd. The U.S. additionally alien 139,000bpd of alcohol fuels. However, during the aforementioned time frame, the U.S. exported 548,000bpd of gasoline and 850,000bpd of distillates. In total, U.S. refineries exported 2.9 actor barrels per day of oil and products.

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